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• n  someone skilled in penmanship

• As a boy, he learned 600 basic Mandarin characters from a Chinese calligrapher, causing later observers to remark on the strange way he held his pen.
• Cutting-edge calligrapher Xu Bing sees his brush as a cultural bridge, and the world is meeting him halfway.
• Doyle is a calligrapher with light.

• calligraphist

News & Articles

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• Chinese plane crash victims were student leaders
  BEIJING (AP) — The two Chinese teenagers who died in an Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco were student leaders who excelled in their studies and in the arts — one was a calligrapher and the other a pianist.        
  July 8, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• Hassan Massoudy in Alarab online
  The Quran on display here which is leather bound is a very special thing in Kashmir. Also displayed was Khat-e-Nakhun which means calligrapher has used the nail of his finger to write and can be read on the other side. It is to be found only in... Allama Iqbal http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFno2K14rJuJwoLLSUqt_LpZCy_tg Newstrack India (blog) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/18938&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEy9K4Gzn_jMkOp3gXw8saUMa5RXQ Sep 25, 2008 14411 19564 calligrapher The gestures of the calligrapher become an open space, welcoming the words of the poet and the imagination of the onlooker," said Massoudy when he described his art.
• Hung Liu in San Francisco Chronicle
  Sometimes it feels like an ancient Chinese calligrapher who drank some wine. You can just do whatever,Liu says. "When you're filling in those feathers, they don't have to be feathers. They're strokes, a language. I just love that freedom."